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KYC / KYC, AML & identity

Vouched

Vouched is a Seattle identity verification company that checks government IDs and biometrics, then re-checks that the same person is present for later high-risk actions.

Established
2018
Company type
Private company
Official site
vouched.id
Funding
~$17M Series A in September 2025 led by Spring Rock Ventures

Assessment

Vouched is used by telehealth, financial services, and other digital businesses that need to know who is on the other end of a session. It reports more than 100 telehealth customers and more than 200 financial institutions since 2019, and its best use cases are onboarding IDV, account recovery, and step-up checks. Prices are sales-led with a free trial path, and its main competitors are Persona, Veriff, and iDenfy.

Peter Horadan is chief executive. GeekWire reported a $17M Series A led by Spring Rock Ventures in September 2025, with investor interest tied to mobile driver licenses and AI-agent identity controls.

It fits a product team that wants identity assurance beyond the first onboarding check. It is a weaker fit for a bank that needs a full AML case-management suite as the primary buy, and for a buyer that only wants a cheap one-time document scan with no re-authentication product.

Rating by criterion

We score each of the eight criteria out of 100.

Sector criteria

Verification coverage84

Verify government IDs and biometrics at onboarding. Vouched markets document and selfie matching as the core check.

Fraud and risk signals82

Use step-up and account-recovery checks after the first verification. The product stresses proving it is still the same person.

Case management and workflow78

Review fraud and tamper signals on documents and selfies.

Regulatory fit76

Fit US healthcare and financial-services workflows, including telehealth examples on the site.

Vendor criteria

Product depth and roadmap86

Expect product work on mobile driver licenses and AI-agent identity. The Series A narrative centers on those roadmaps.

Onboarding and support80

Start with a free trial path, then a sales conversation for production volume.

Pricing transparency60

Request volume pricing in writing. Public pages do not post a full enterprise rate card.

Contract terms74

Negotiate by volume and channel. Healthcare and financial programs often need custom terms.

Against its peers

These are the other companies in KYC, AML and identity, with their ratings.

User comments

Buyer-oriented points below are drawn from Vouched’s home page and GeekWire Series A coverage.

  • Upside

    “Product teams value IDV that continues into account recovery and step-up moments, not only the first signup.”

  • Upside

    “Buyers comparing document checks notice selfie-to-ID matching plus tamper checks against address and database signals in the same flow.”

  • Downside

    “A compliance team that needs deep AML transaction monitoring as the main product will still need other vendors.”

Where customer reviews couldn't be found, our analysts attempted to give a voice to buyer sentiment, drawing on real information from review sites, forums and product documentation. We omit sites where vendors pay to be featured or pay for a review, plus any review the site flags as incentivized.

Based on: Vouched home page; Vouched, leadership; GeekWire, September 2025.

Fact file

CEOPeter Horadan
Series A$17M, September 2025
Lead investorSpring Rock Ventures
Telehealth customersMore than 100
Financial institutionsMore than 200 since 2019

Competitive landscape

Identity verification vendors a product or risk team would compare with Vouched.

Reviewed scores out of 100
0 25 50 75 100 Vouched 78 Persona 81 Veriff 80 Jumio 77 iDenfy 75 Socure Not reviewed

Vouched: 78

Comparisons

Key leadership

Peter Horadan is chief executive of Vouched.

How this review was created

This profile gives our own assessment of Vouched to companies selecting a KYC, AML & identity provider. The Fintech Index receives nothing for featuring a firm, for sponsorship, or for advertising, and Vouched gave us no payment for the profile.

The rating equals the average of eight criteria, with every criterion running from 0 to 100. Four address buyer needs in this sector, and four address the company together with its commercial terms.

Ratings are our editorial judgment, made from public information: pricing and legal pages, product documentation, compliance disclosures, public reviews and filings. Fact-checking took place on November 6, 2026.

Source pages
  1. Vouched home page: https://www.vouched.id/ (As of November 6, 2026)
  2. Vouched, leadership: https://www.vouched.id/company/ourstory (As of November 6, 2026)
  3. GeekWire, September 2025: https://www.geekwire.com/2025/id-verification-startup-vouched-raises-17m-as-it-builds-ai-tools-for-new-future-of-identity/ (As of November 6, 2026)